Title: The House of Kennedy Author: James Patterson Narrator: David Pittu Published: April 2020, Little Brown & Company Length: 10 hours 25 minutes / 425 pages Source: Audio – borrowed via Library / Print – Personal copy Summary: The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: “To whom much is given, much is expected” and…
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Title: The Swap Author: Robyn Harding Published: June 2020, Gallery/Scout Press Format: ARC E-copy, 334 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: “No list of thrillers is complete without Robyn Harding,” proclaims Real Simple. Now the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Party delivers a riveting tale about the toxic relationship between two couples after a night of sexual shenanigans, and the manipulative teenager with an explosive secret at the center of…
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Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Author: V.E. Schwab Narrator: Julia Whelan Published: October 2020, Macmillan Audio / Tor Books Length: 17 hours 10 minutes / 442 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Macmillan Audio / Print – Personal copy Summary: A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever…
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Title: The Wicked Hour Author: Alice Blanchard Series: Natalie Lockard, #2 Published: December 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Publisher via Netgalley Summary: From the award-winning author of Trace of Evil, a detective dealing with the scars of her past must solve a seemingly unconnected string of murders, and face the impossible question of what to do when the killer may be hiding amongst the ones…
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Title: The Second Mother Author: Jenny Milchman Published: August 2020, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: ARC Paperback, 464 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Opportunity: Teacher needed in one-room schoolhouse on remote island in Maine. Certification in grades K-8 a must. Julie Weathers isn’t sure if she’s running away or starting over, but moving to a remote island off the coast of Maine feels right for someone with reasons to flee her old life.…
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Title: Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry Author: Mary Higgins Clark Published: November 2019, Simon Shuster Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: An electrifying new thriller from “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark! When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a “CRyan” describing her “terrible experience” while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment “and I’m not the only one,” Gina…
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Title: Winterkill Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Dark Iceland, #6 Published: December 2020, Orenda Books Format: ARC E-copy, 276 pages Source: Publisher Summary: When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer … The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international bestselling Dark Iceland series. Easter weekend is…
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Title: House of Correction Author: Nicci French Published: October 2020, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 528 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: ‘So,’ said Mora Piozzi, her lawyer, looking down at her laptop. ‘In brief: you are charged with the murder of Stuart Robert Rees, on December 21st, between the hours of ten-forty in the morning and half-past three o’clock in the afternoon.’ Tabitha is accused of murder.…
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Last year, I read The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis when it was first released in hardcover, and I really enjoyed it! You can read my thoughts on the book here. Today the book is being released in paperback – with a brand new cover!!! – and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out. I’ve read every book Fiona Davis has written and have loved them…
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Title: The Dead Season Author: Tessa Wegert Series: Shana Merchant, #2 Published: December 2020, Berkley Books Format: Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Senior Investigator Shana Merchant has spent years running from her past. But she never imagined a murder case would drive her to the most dangerous place of all–home. After leaving the NYPD following her abduction by serial killer Blake Bram, Shana Merchant hoped for a fresh…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Take It Back by Kia Abdullah. Thank you St. Martin’s Press for inviting me to participate. Title: Take It Back Author: Kia Abdullah Series: Zara Kaleel, #1 Published: December 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that…
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Title: Lazarus Author: Lars Kepler Series: Joona Linna, #7 Published: December 2020, Knopf Publishing Group Format: Hardcover, 496 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Sometimes the past won’t stay buried. All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to Detective Joona…
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Title: Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing Author: Allison Winn Scotch Published: August 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 322 pages Source: Publicist Summary: Politics is a test of wills in a sharp, funny, and emotional novel about truth and consequences by the New York Times bestselling author. Cleo McDougal is a born politician. From congresswoman to senator, the magnetic, ambitious single mother now has her eye on the White House—always looking forward, never…
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Title: Loss Lake Author: Amber Cowie Published: November 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 303 pages Source: Author Summary: A new town, a new life, and a new home—with an absolutely chilling lakefront view. Two months a widow, Mallory Dent has made the impulsive decision to pack up and move on. In remote McNamara, nestled in the northern mountains, she can escape her grief, guilt, and pain. But…
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Title: When We Believed in Mermaids Author: Barbara O’Neal Narrator: Sarah Naughton, Katherine Littrell Published: July 2019, Brilliance Audio Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the…
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Title: Call of Vultures Author: Kate Kessler Series: Killian Delaney, #2 Published: December 2020, Redhook Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In this suspenseful and twisted thriller, an ex-con uses her unique skill set to fight for the justice of those who can’t defend themselves. Kate Kessler’s novels are “impossible to put down” (Hollie Overton). Killian Delaney has a skewed moral compass, a high threshold for pain,…
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How is it possible that we have one left month of this crazy year…the year that has felt like it has lasted longer than any other? One thing is for sure…my reading certainly hasn’t suffered and for that, I am not complaining! As we head into this last month, I am just going to enjoy it, read what I want and see where the month takes me. …
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Title: Seven Crows Author: Kate Kessler Series: Killian Delaney, #1 Published: October 2019, Redhook Format: Paperback, 357 pages Source: Publisher Summary: An ex-con tracks down the men who have kidnapped her niece in this gritty and visceral thriller. Killian Delaney has a skewed moral compass, a high threshold for pain, and has just been released from prison to discover that someone has taken her niece. Killian does not hesitate.…
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Title: Whiteout Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Dark Iceland, #5 Published: January 2020, Orenda Books Format: Paperback, 224 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and…
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Title: Bright Lies Author: A.A. Abbott Published: November 2020, Perfect City Press Format: ARC E-copy, 224 pages Source: Publicist Summary: She’s learned too much, too young. Can she break free? Emily’s dreams come true when her mother marries wealthy painter, David. Thanks to him, Emily’s artistic talents shine. Then he starts teaching her things a 14-year-old shouldn’t know. While Emily breaks free, she’s forced to sleep in a rat-infested…
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Title: The Girl Who Lived Twice Author:David Lagercrantz Series: Millennium, #6 Narrator: Simon Vance Published: August 2019, Random House Audio Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: The sixth Lisbeth Salander story in the Millennium Series–the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Lisbeth Salander–the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo–has disappeared. She’s sold her apartment in Stockholm. She’s gone silent electronically.…
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Title: Girls of Brackenhill Author: Kate Moretti Published: November 2020, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 332 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Haunted by her sister’s disappearance, a troubled woman becomes consumed by past secrets in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year. When Hannah Maloney’s aunt dies in a car accident, she returns to her family’s castle in the Catskills and the…
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Title: The First Shot Author: Liv Constantine Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman Published: November 2020, Audible Originals Length: 2 hours 35 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: In this gripping prequel to the blockbuster best seller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, listeners will discover exactly how Amber Patterson transformed from small-town girl to master manipulator – after all, practice makes perfect. Amber Patterson has many secrets.…
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Title: The Kingdom Author: Jo Nesbo Published: November 2020, Knopf Format: Hardcover, 560 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Roy and Carl have spent their whole lives running from the darkness in their past, but when Carl finally returns to make peace with it, the two brothers are inexorably drawn into a reckoning with their own demons. Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike…
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Title: My Darling Author: Amanda Darling Published: November 2020, HarperCollins Format: ARC Paperback, 372 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A new couple moves in next door. And nothing will ever be the same again… I watched you move in and thought we might be friends. I saw you watching from the window – and knew I’d have to keep you away from my husband. I started to trust you. Confide…
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Title: Agent 355 Author: Marie Benedict Narrator: Emily Rankin Published: July 2020, Audible Original Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From Marie Benedict, best-selling author of The Only Woman in the Room and Lady Clementine, comes a captivating work of historical fiction about a young female spy who may have changed the course of American History. The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War,…
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I am so excited to help Beatriz William spread the news today about her newest book – and share the cover!!! I love reading historical fiction and Beatriz’s previous books have been so good. I am so excited to read this one. This book will be released June 1, 2021, but you can pre-order now. See the pre-order link below. Title: Our Woman in Moscow Author: Beatriz Williams…
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Title: The Haunting of Brynn Wilder Author: Wendy Webb Published: November 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary: After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail…
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Title: The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye Author: David Lagercrantz Series: Millennium, #5 Narrator: Simon Vance Published: September 2017, Random House Audio Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander…
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Title: Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters Author: Jennifer Chiaverini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Published: June 2020, Harper Audio / William Morrow Length: 12 hours 24 minutes / 336 pages Source: Audio via library / Print via Publisher Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense. In…
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Title: First Girl Gone Author: L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain Series: Charlotte Winters, #1 Published: September 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 429 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Down the beach, she can just make out the rusting hulk of the Ferris wheel through the dawn mist. The hairs prickle on her neck as she drags her focus back to the chestnut hair fanned out in the shallow water at…
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Title: The Silent Wife Author: Karin Slaughter Series: Will Trent, #10 Narrator: Kathleen Early Published: August 2020, Blackstone Publishing / William Morrow Length: 18 hours 33 minutes / 496 pages Source: Audio via Netgalley / Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow Summary: Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the…
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Title: Secrets of a Serial Killer Author: Rosie Walker Published: July 2020, One More Chapter Format: ARC E-copy, 286 pages Source: Publisher Summary: An edge-of-your-seat serial killer thriller that you won’t be able to put down! There it is: fear. It’s crawling all over her face and in her eyes, like a swarm of insects, and it’s all because of him. A serial killer has been terrorising Lancaster for…
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Title: The Forgotten Daughter Author: Joanna Goodman Narrator: Esther Thibault Published: October 2020, Harper Audio / Harper Paperbacks Length: 12 hours 57 minutes / 416 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print via Publisher Summary: From the author of the bestselling novel The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and suspense, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will…
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Title: The Home for Unwanted Girls Author: Joanna Goodman Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Published: April 2018, Harper Audio Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Source: Library Summary: Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit – the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In…
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Title: To Tell You the Truth Author: Gilly Macmillan Published: September 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: The acclaimed author of The Nanny, The Perfect Girl, and What She Knew—“a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly)—returns with another serpentine thriller that is a potent blend of atmosphere, tarnished memories, mystery, and twisty secrets from the past. Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper’s talent for…
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Title: A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem Author: Manda Collins Series: A Lady’s Guide, #1 Published: November 2020, Forever Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in award-winning author Manda Collins’ fun and flirty historical rom-com! England, 1865 : As one of England’s most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power.…
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Title: In the Lion’s Den Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: House of Falconer, #2 Published: November 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for the Shadow Sands by Robert Bryndza. Thank you Little Brown Book Group for inviting me to participate. ***There are different covers for the UK & US books. The first cover shown is the UK cover, and at the bottom of the post, the US cover is show. Title: Shadow Sands Author: Robert Bryndza Series: Kate…
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Title: Paris for One & Other Stories Author: Jojo Moyes Published: October 2017, Penguin Books Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away–to anywhere–before. Traveling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone–including herself–wrong. Alone in…
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Title: Master of His Fate Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: House of Falconer, #1 Narrator: Joan Walker Published: November 2018, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 10 hours 57 minutes / 400 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print – Hardcopy via GetRed PR Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a…
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My reading might have been a little slower this past month, but still higher than what it typically is. And now that we only have 2 months left in this year – how is that possible??? – I am really going to concentrate on reading more from my shelves and try not to spend any. We’ll see how that goes… Reading Stats: Read this month: 25…
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Title: A Frenzy of Sparks Author: Kristin Fields Published: November 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 252 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: From the author of A Lily in the Light comes a poignant story of innocence lost and what it means to grow up too fast. It’s 1965, and thirteen-year-old Gia, along with her older brother and cousins, are desperate to escape their sleepy, tree-lined neighborhood…
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Title: When We Were Young and Brave Author: Hazel Gaynor Narrator: Rosie Jones, Imogen Church Published: October 2020, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length: 11 hours 32 minutes / 448 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print via TLC BookTours Summary: Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home…
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Title: Bluebird Bluebird Author: Attica Locke Series: Highway 59 Published: August 2018, Mulholland Books Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger,…
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Title: In the Deep Author: Loreth Anne White Published: October 2020, Montlake Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: I hope you don’t find him. And if you do, I hope he’s dead and that he suffered… Real-estate mogul Martin Cresswell-Smith is the best thing that has ever happened to Ellie. After her daughter’s devastating death, a divorce, and an emotional breakdown, he’s helped her move as far as…
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Title: A Beautiful Corpse Author: Christi Daugherty Series: Harper McClain, #2 Published: March 2019, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain. For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all. With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees…
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Title: Every Now and Then Author: Lesley Kagen Published: October 2020, Alcove Books Format: ARC E-copy, 296 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and This Tender Land. A heartfelt coming-of-age story about three young girls searching for adventure during the summer of 1960 from the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark. The summer of 1960 was the hottest…
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Title: Absolution Author: Regina Buttner Published: October 2020, SparkPress Format: Paperback, 256 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: Jeanie thinks she was to blame for the sexual assault she suffered in college—and she’d do anything to keep her old-school Catholic family from finding out about the resulting pregnancy, as well as what she did to conceal it. Years have passed since the assault, and Jeanie’s husband, Greg, still thinks…
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Title: Northanger Abbey Author: Jane Austen Published: February 2007, Barnes & Noble Classics (1st published December 1817) Format: Hardcover, 260 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story,…
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